vim question

[Cristina Nunes]

Try V to select the all line and %s/:/ /

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:12 AM,  <asmith9983 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have the following file contents which I'm editing with vim:-
>
>       1  The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
>       2  The:quick:brown:fox:jumped:over:the:lazy:dog.
>       3  The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
>       4  The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
>       5  The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
>
>
>  I want to place my cursor on the b of brown on line 2, and with a simple
>  command change all the colons(:) to end of line,  to a space( ). Obviously its
>  a change to end
>  of line only, so a g substitute modifier is no good. I've also tried selecting
>  selecting to end of line with v, visual mode, then applying ! operator with
>  sed -e 's/:/ /', but it didn't work.
>
>  Anybody got an idea that'll work.
>
>
>
>  --
>  Andrew
>



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